Spurred on by the eager adoption of XML, the world appears to be on the verge of a revolution in the ease with which information resources from diverse, remote providers can be bro...
This paper presents a problem-independent framework that uni es various mechanisms for solving discrete constrained nonlinear programming (NLP) problems whose functions are not ne...
We show how model extensibility of object-oriented data management systems can be achieved through the combination of a highlevel core object data model and an architecture designe...
This paper introduces a novel statistical mixture model for probabilistic clustering of histogram data and, more generally, for the analysis of discrete co occurrence data. Adoptin...
Even though it is not very often admitted, partial functions do play a significant role in many practical applications of deduction systems. Kleene has already given a semantic acc...